activist/artist/philosopher/poet/historian, printmaker,
installation artist, and public artist who has realized commissions
from the Arizona Humanities Council, Cambridge Arts Council, New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program,
the General Services Administration of the Federal Government, and
the National Endowment for the Arts

has worked collaboratively with community groups for over thirty
years and sits on the boards of the Museum of the Chinese in the
Americas, the Coast to Coast Women Artists of Color Organization,
and the Bread and Roses Cultural Project of the 1199 Health and
Hospitals Workers Union

has designed public art works for Creative Time, the National
Endowment for the Arts, and the General Services Administration's
Art in Architecture Program for which she designed a mural to
commemorate the African Burial Ground in New York City

recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in
Printmaking, a 1995 Joan Mitchell Visual Arts Grant, a 1997 Mid
Atlantic Arts Foundation Visual Artist Residency, and a 1994 NEA
Visual Arts Fellowship

explores the relationship of art to history and the role that
memory plays in retelling a collective past

recent works include a series of constructions that incorporate
silk-screened photographs addressing issues of identity,
displacement, and acculturation